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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 28, 1995Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 7:19 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 1995, 7:19 PM MDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1995, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Quay County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 28, 2:20 PM MDT, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:20 PM MDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 8:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Quay	58 min
May 28, 9:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Quay	57 min
May 29, 2:53 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roosevelt	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.